FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION Catherine O’Hara, Christopher Guest (PG-13) Guest and his band of players strike again, this time turning their mockumentary eye on Hollywood and the hysterical buzz that surrounds Oscar season. From O’Hara’s spot-on turn as an aging actress (Academy voters take note!) to Jane Lynch’s Mary Hart-like shoulder-squaring on an infotainment program, Guest’s insider-y satire proves he is best in show (business).

COME EARLY MORNING Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan (R) Stuck in a small town in Arkansas, Judd plays a young woman drowning in Coors and one-night stands. Judd, as always, is terrific, but the real find in this moving drama is the who-knew-she-had-it talent of actress-turned-writer-director Joey Lauren Adams.

THE AURA Ricardo Darín (Unrated) Director Fabiàn Bielinsky (Nine Queens) passed away last year, making this enigmatic drama — about an epileptic Argentinean taxidermist who becomes infatuated with imagining the perfect crime — that much more moving.

MUSIC

TOM WAITSOrphans As a songwriter and Everyman biographer, Waits is every bit the equal of Bruce Springsteen. Over three discs — pulled from recordings new, old, and hard-to-find — Waits paints a panorama of America that is heartbreakingly unsentimental and pungently real.

YABBY YOUDeliver Me From My Enemies A strange but utterly listenable album from 1977, in which the talented Jamaican vocalist somehow manages to fuse smoky Rastafarian island vibes with revival-tent Christianity. Glorious proof that mon does not live by bread alone.

GHOSTFACE KILLAHMore Fish Functioning as a sequel to last March’s well-regarded Fishscale, More Fish is a very welcome second serving of Ghost’s funky samples and even funkier rhymes. Fellow Wu-Tangers add a bit of flavor to yet another fine effort from the rapper whom we all now know to be the Clan’s best.

THE DB’s & FRIENDSChristmas Time Again Twenty years after its release, a modest but much-loved seven-song EP from these college-rock avatars has turned into a 21-track new holiday classic that glows with yuletide charm.

DAVID CROSBYIf I Could Only Remember My Name This 35-year-old gem — a, um, high point in the laid-back lushness of the ’70s-era West Coast sound — is remastered.

JOAN OSBORNEPretty Little Stranger Creamy country-soul from the singer who made a fortune wondering if God was one of us.

DVDs

ST. ELSEWHERE: SEASON ONE (Unrated) What Hill Street Blues did for the modern cop show, St. Elsewhere did for today’s hospital dramas. With a cast that featured a young Denzel Washington (and guest-star turns by Doris Roberts and Tim Robbins), the series presented its doctors as complex and fallible characters.

PANDORA’S BOX Louise Brooks (Unrated) What’s most remarkable about this 1929 silent-film classic is not the wondrously lurid story. Nor is it G.W. Pabst’s rich direction. No, what’s most remarkable is Brooks’ eerily modern performance as a young woman who understands all too well the tragic arc of her life.

WALT DISNEY’S TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURES (VOL. 1-4) (Unrated) Parents who want to remind their kids (and themselves) that not all animals can talk, sing, or — as in the case of a cartoon hit now in theaters - dance should pick up any one of the films in this Oscar-winning series of nature docs made between 1948 and 1960.

SCRUBS (NBC, Thursdays, 9-9:30 p.m.) The viewer-challenged medical comedy starring John C. McGinley and Zach Braff continues to administer guffaws and wacky non sequiturs (with a healthy dose of sentiment) in its sixth year. Just witness the season premiere, which referenced Pop Rocks and Tone Loc and featured the staff grooving to ‘N Sync’s ”Bye Bye Bye.” And that ain’t no lie.

TSUNAMI, THE AFTERMATH (HBO) Based on the 2004 disaster, this two-parter — featuring an excellent cast including Toni Collette, Tim Roth, and Sophie Okonedo — provides faces to the many stories of loss and survival that occurred after the wave hit. Chiwetel Ejiofor is particularly affecting as a vacationer separated from his wife and child.

AFTERLIFE (BBC America, Thursdays, 9 - 10 p.m.) Alison sees dead people. Psychologist Robert is a skeptic. But when Robert discovers Alison can communicate with his dead son, the duo strike up an unlikely partnership in this spirited new series.

BOOKS

THE HANDMAID AND THE CARPENTER by Elizabeth Berg (Novel) In Berg’s fresh, modern telling of the couple who would raise Jesus, precocious teen Mary nabs eligible bachelor Joseph, and the love story that follows becomes its own miracle.